English English Dictionary

Sticky; adhesive; raw; -- said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried.

Designating, or pertaining to, the series of rocks forming the Taconic mountains in Western New England. They were once supposed to be older than the Cambrian, but later proved to belong to the Lower Silurian and Cambrian.

The sense of touch; feeling.

The stroke in beating time.

Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.

Capable of being touched; tangible.

Alt. of Tactical

See Tactics.

Of or pertaining to the art of military and naval tactics.

One versed in tactics; hence, a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager.

The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics of instruction.

Hence, any system or method of procedure.

Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations.

The quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.

The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency.

Destitute of tact.

Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch.

The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also polliwig, polliwog, porwiggle, or purwiggy.

The hooded merganser.

See Tedium.